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Mark Morris: Bad Things Happen Here and a Life in Horror
Mark Morris has been writing British horror fiction since 1989, and Bad Things Happen Here may be his most emotionally precise novel yet. In this wide-ranging interview, he talks about intergenerational fear, the Nordic folklore that shaped That Which Stands Outside, and what it actually takes to survive four decades in a genre that has buried far bigger names. Essential reading for anyone who takes UK horror seriously.
The Devil’s Banquet by Phil Lecomber: Dark, Occult, and Unmissable
Occult decadence, Nazi shadows, and a Cockney detective who won’t look away — Phil Lecomber’s Piccadilly Noir reaches its full dark potential
The Fantastical Horror of Frances White’s The Bone Door
In The Bone Door, Frances White crafts a trauma fantasy where a memory labyrinth becomes an emotional horror. Hop’s journey through locked doors is a devastating exploration of grief and healing. This isn’t just dark fantasy—it’s a compassionate look at bearing wounds that never fully close.
Our Top 5 Mark Morris Novels: Blood, Floods, Folk Legends, and Whatever’s Standing Outside
This week, Ginger Nuts of Horror is marking the release of his new novel, Bad Things Happen Here, with three consecutive days of Mark Morris. Today, we are running our Top Five Mark Morris novels, five books drawn from across his career that show what he does when he is operating at full power. On Wednesday, Jim McLeod sits down with Mark for an in-depth interview. On Thursday, we publish our full review of Bad Things Happen Here.
Vic Kerry Is Stuck in A Horror Franchise
Vic Kerry wakes up in I Know What You Did Last Summer—and he’s not scared. Between crushing on Jennifer Love Hewitt and exploiting Ben the Fisherman’s terrible wardrobe choices for a heat stroke victory, this horror interview template gets weird. Plus: why Velma needs Dr. House and Geordi La Forge.
Find Your Friends Review: Izabel Pakzad’s Desert Revenge Misfires
Izabel Pakzad’s Find Your Friends drops five wasted party girls into Joshua Tree and promises a survival-horror reckoning with toxic masculinity. There’s a real story of female rage swimming beneath the booze, the Molly and the desert menace — but does this Shudder revenge thriller ever let it breathe? Our review counts the cost.
Cover Reveal: Still Floating: Pennywise at 40 and Why He Won’t Die
Forty years after Stephen King published IT, Pennywise the Dancing Clown is still showing up: on HBO, in academic criticism, and now in Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise, edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Tom Deady. The book brings together thirty contributors, including Stephen King expert Bev Vincent and co-author Richard Chizmar, to examine the cultural weight of a 1,138-page novel that never quite let go. This retrospective makes the case for why IT belongs in a different conversation than most horror fiction, and why that conversation is long overdue.
The Kids Are Alright: Horror Books for 10 Year Olds
Horror books for 10 year olds that pass the classroom test. Twenty middle grade picks from a librarian’s 100 Book Challenge, backed by real pupil reviews.
Deadbeat by Maxim Volk, A Choose Your Own Queer Adventure Horror at Its Nastiest
Maxim Volk’s Deadbeat — the first entry in Slashic Horror Press’s Extremities series — drops you dead on page one and hands you a choice. A choose-your-own-path narrative maze in relentless second person, it follows a gay househusband resurrected by a naked cult and left to navigate undead existence with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Funny, nasty, structurally inventive, and built around complicity as its core horror mechanism, Deadbeat is one of the most confident debut novels in queer horror this year. Jim McLeod reviews.
Pam Kowolski Is a Monster! by Sarah Langan Review: And I Thought I Held Grudges!
Sarah Langan’s Pam Kowolski Is a Monster! (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025) is a 119-page psychological horror novella about failed journalist Janet Chow, who attempts to expose her high school nemesis — now “Madame Pamela,” America’s favourite doomsday psychic — and uncovers a version of their shared past she’s spent twenty years getting wrong. Langan builds horror from the inside out: bitter, funny, and structurally precise, this is one of the most accomplished novellas published in horror this year. Read the full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist Review: Folk Horror That Gets Under Your Skin
Rhiannon Grist’s debut novel Home Sick (Solaris, 2026) is a slow-burn psychological horror rooted in Scottish folklore and the particular dread of the domestic uncanny. Following Tamsin as her Scottish countryside fresh start becomes something far less clean, Grist builds claustrophobic menace from shared walls, unreliable narration, and a folkloric framework that deepens rather than resolves the horror. Read the full Ginger Nuts of Horror review of this essential 2026 folk horror debut.
Why suspense makes digital games feel sharper
Why suspense makes digital games feel sharper Horror fans understand one thing very well: tension does not need to be loud to work. A closed door, a slow camera move, a pause before the reveal, or a small change in lighting can hold attention better than constant action. Digital games … Why suspense makes digital games feel sharper Read more
The Way It Haunted Him Review: Laura R. Samotin’s Dark Academia Horror Is the Real Thing
Laura R. Samotin’s The Way It Haunted Him (Titan Books, June 2026) is her adult horror debut — a claustrophobic queer dark academia novel set in a Jewish archive overrun with dybbuks, mazzekin, and the particular danger of a man who has mistaken punishment for love. Jim McLeod reviews for Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Laura R. Samotin: On Grief, Demons and Dark Academia, All Because it was The Way it Haunted Him
Laura R. Samotin interview: her new queer dark academia horror The Way It Haunted Him channels Jewish folklore, grief, and a demon-infested archive.